Re: squid (1.2) mangles ftp://foo/textfile into a download form

Run ftpget without parameters. You can set the default returned
mime-type to whatever you want.

Alas, though, is the mime-type is a viewable type (like text/plain) then
shift-click (or save-to-disk) will _not_ always work correctly.
Sometimes a binary file will get mangled, if I remember rightly.

D

George Michaelson wrote:
>
> It's a side-effect.
>
> Ok. imagine you use this to browse a unpacked C source archive.
>
> as distributed, the current mime_table.h will let you see c and c++
> and headers, but not lex, yacc or Makefiles. It wouldn't see an Imake.tmpl
> ok, nor pascal or lisp.
>
> You can look at .texinfo but not the resultant .info files.
>
> I realize this is inversion of the current behaviour, but isn't it possible
> the current file extension set actually reflects the majority of save-to-disk
> instances, and that unknown extensions are more likely to be useful viewed
> inline?
>
> After all, the shift-click method exists to force any link to a save-to-disk
> but there isn't an inverse to force-to-screen, and furthermore the behaviour
> of the squid is now inverting that raw browser.
>
> Really, the principle of least-suprise and least-change is to mimic the
> browser. Even if this breaks downloads, its consistent! And shift-click
> fixes the breakage.
>
> cheers
> -George

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